Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentRacial Disparities in the Death Penalty“Race plays a decisive role in the question of who lives and dies by execution.”Mar 7, 2022Mar 7, 2022
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentRacism and AbortionBlack Leaders SpeakFeb 28, 2022Feb 28, 2022
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentA Healing Metaphor: Pandemic as WarThe language is everywhere: we’re at war against an invisible enemy, adjusting to new realities of wartime living and expressing gratitude…Dec 12, 2020Dec 12, 2020
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentTo Know a Person is to Recognize a HumanMethodist theologian Stanley Hauerwas once wrote, “My Uncle Charlie is not much of a person but he is still my Uncle Charlie.” This…Oct 6, 2020Oct 6, 2020
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentWhat Does It Mean to Be Inconsistent?Consistent Life Network President John Whitehead once put a question to fellow consistent-lifers: does it necessarily make sense to call…Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentJustice Littered with Injustice: Viewing Just Mercy in a Charged MomentThe film Just Mercy (Warner Brothers, 2019) follows attorney Bryan Stevenson’s early career as founding director of the Equal Justice…Aug 20, 20201Aug 20, 20201
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentDefining Reproductive Justice: An EncounterIn the summer of 2018, I helped to represent the Consistent Life Network, of which I am a board member, at the Wild Goose Festival, an…Aug 17, 2020Aug 17, 2020
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentThe Price of Violence: When Dehumanizing the Vulnerable Hurts One’s Own CausesProgressive and conservative analysts have noted how attachments to Roe v Wade and Trumpism have damaged their respective movements’…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020